Message Number: SG7092 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-12-15 12:51:32 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] ferret with heart block dies
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6692817.1071492692006.JavaMail.root@indium.smartgroups.com>

I'm curious about this too. I asked my vet if it would be worthwhile for me to have dextrose on hand to give Spaz sub-q if he had a hypoglycemic seizure and he said giving it that way could result in an abscess.

mike

Author wrote:
> How was the dextrose being given sub Q, because at normal amounts it causes
> skin damage and sloughing?